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Carroll Gardens brownstone asks $1.3M
BY STEPHEN ZACKS
Some may take offense
to the conspicuous Union
Jack rug in the living room,
but let it not prejudice you
against this otherwise generously
proportioned and
sprightly decorated twobedroom
condo in Carroll
Gardens.
It’s unusually spacious,
in fact, for essentially a
f loor-through in a circa
1860s Italianate brownstone.
The 25-foot-wide volume allows
for a second bedroom
big enough for a king or
queen size bed, with a room
labeled the master bedroom
here staged as a shared children’s
room.
A pitfall of the current
configuration however is
that there is no internal hallway
within the apartment.
The entrance leads past the
one bathroom to the capacious
and nicely outfitted
galley style kitchen. Pivot
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right and you’ve entered the
Order of British Empire living
room and, past that, a
separate dining room, an office
with built-in bookcases
that can double as a den or
a dressing room, according
to the floor plan, and finally
the bedrooms. Circulation to
the second bedroom is either
through the master bedroom
or through a public hallway,
though as a fourth floor unit,
the common hall may afford
relatively few passersby.
The listing helpfully offers
an alternative f loor plan
that provides an alternative
entrance, carves a passageway
from the second bedroom
directly to the interstitial
office, and combines
the living and dining rooms
in case the f low is less than
ideal, and we can see the advantages.
Some may prefer
to keep the currently separate
dining room, which has
space for lots of bookcases
and could look good with
dark-painted walls.
The apartment preserves
some vintage details such
as tin ceilings, picture rails,
wainscoting, recessed panels
in the front windows, and one
marble mantel in the master
bedroom. It also has a decent
amount of closet and storage
space compared to most
fl oor-through apartments in
Italianate brownstones.
The galley kitchen seems
to have plenty of counter
and storage space, and
room enough for a table
and chairs. It has been updated
with Shaker-style
cabinets, white subway tile
backsplash, a stone countertop,
wide built-in fridge and
wood f loors.
The black and white bathroom
has also been updated
in a classic prewar style,
with porcelain hex tile f loor,
white subway tile walls, a
Deco-era tub and brightly
The two-bedroom condo was last sold in 2007 for $865,000 and is back
on the market. Halstead
colored accessories.
85 1st Place is on a block
with deep front gardens
close to Carroll Park and
the F and G trains at Carroll
Street. Presumably the
walkup, which went condo
in 1999, is self managed; it
has five f loor-through units
spread over five floors, all
owner occupied. There is
additional storage in the
basement. The unit has relatively
low monthlies of $400
in common charges and
$183.63 in taxes.
This particular unit last
sold in 2007 for $865,000 and
is asking $1.3 million. What
do you think of it?
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